Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-02
Nor York Uaaund E1ygsss.

there il the moderate luuCheT. she l. Il
| -cli-nU-,,.>scd woman, who has argued tie
whole matter out She can lunch there rs
I chrlplv ~ anywhere else. and every day
| finds her seated at one Of the tables. Sh"
always orders something solid and sub
>Jaotial. Then IN a prominent ptace--rn-
orally right by the door-whcre everybody
| can see aer, sits the lUuChcr who u con-
/ tirmrd in the habit. She sits all alone
and brOwSes in supreme satisfaction. She
/ always orders Is much - her purse will
allow, and delights her soul in the multi
pIiriiv Of the dishes and the heterOgcnlty
/ of the debris surrounding hCr. When she
/ rise, to leave she scans the table and It-
| piles OF plates and ~IuccrS with the same
pride that IN old veteran Will oGIc the SIN
| teen bottles ne has got away with at one
sitting. The drinking habit IN men Is
mostly 4 matter OF appetite, but appetite
| has very little to do with ia" lunch
| iny of women. She becomes a reg
ulur treuucutcr Of the ladies lunch room
| because She lOyeSa crowd. She delights IN
variety. and because OF her innate vanity.
| It every woman had a separate room IL
/ lunch in there would bc no IuuchcrS.
| There is in consequence 4 spirit of rivalry
/ in these lunch rooms which makes them
as fascinating Us Il horse race. Every
woman means to he ahead of her neigh
| Dor. either in the quantity or quality OF
/ the lunch she orders. There is no hang
/ ing back, and the woman will start 4 race
with the same lunch and they come IN
neck aud neck with the same steamImg
| tourth cup OF ten.
Sometimes it is likS watching Il game O!
poker Four wumen, strangers 10 each
other. will lit At the same table. Theyart
| al regular luucher~ Each Is reluctant "a
rive her order first, hecaU>c each Is de-
Sirous of lettering her neighbor'S repaSt.
| At length one Of them with the air OF a
man who holds two Jacks and pair otaceS,
| orders a plate of turkey and u cup OF coffee.
| Her nrighbor Immediately orders apatc o.
turkey, a cup OF coffee and - plate of Ice
cream, The next one srcS that plate of
turkey the cup ofcOllrc and the ice cream.
and gOes one better and orders a chicken
salad. The fourth seeing how matters
stand. besides on her play. She
has not so much money - the others. She
can't 90 the turkey, the chicken, the Ice
cream and the coffee So she quietly scans
the boards and then maks magnificent
huir with an oyster plttle. I'll take
that first" she remarks to the waitress.
| Then she dallicS with the bill Of fare and
sits out the other three, winning the game
with twenty-five cents Underneath this
spirit of rivalry, there is sort Of conf
Dental understanding. They know that
everybody is Dragging and that everybody
knows that everybody else Is Dragging.
| They know that when woman orders BIZ
lunch ii does not follow that she can really
afford pay for it. They expect thatsome-
body or something will have to suffer.
Sometimes they deny themselves little ar
tlrleS of dress which they want to pur'
chase; or pair of shoes will he bought io'
| 81 which they intended should cost -. On
| il NAV be that the husband has commlS
stoned his wife to purchase him some new
socks or a new tie, and these commissions
are the lunchers opportunity. 4 pretty
woman was heard to say, rs She buttoned
on her glove, to her companion;
well. that's what | call an elegan
! lunch. Have you got any change
NO; why? Do you want to borrow
any
YES; find have only thirty-tve cents
left, and Fred gave me = this morning
and asked me to get him tie.
! IN tell you what to do. Go to Flynn
on sixth avenue. You will get a tie thai
will look lust a. good a. h. would get at
a gents furnishing store for $50 10,
/ twenty cents.
Yes, but Fred
Hell never know the difference. Come
along. I'll 90 with YOU. Eve tried 1t. y
Then the pretty woman and her com
pauion hurried ont to buy the tie whICl
the ignorant husband was to understand
cost a dollar aud half Most OF thcs
luuchers live at boarding houses, 50 tina
the husband not only pays TIE landiadl
in cash tor his wife's lunch, but pays ;
second time for a meal about which II
knows nothing, ont OF his ties, his sock
and his collars and cuts.
Besides the large crowd OF women VIII
p, eat regularly in the lunch rooms, there
the casual lunchcr. These caSuals ar
ALWAYS interesting and easily distinguishes
from the regulars. There i the swei
voun. woman who looks upon these place
in much the same way that she looks up0
variety theatres and dime museums. Sh
thinks it Is proper To walk the length q
the lunch room with her hands IN til
pockets Of her iauuty Jacket. Sh
looks around with an amuse
Iair OF superiority, and, wit
chin appraised and cool stare a
some woman opposite to her, will order ''
Gun of coffee without milk and hiSbult.
Then There are the women who have frs
come back from Europe. Two of this kin
of casuals were seen lunching last week
, They wore English jakctS and EngliS
hats and English shoes. They tried har
, To Use an English accent, hut they onl
. succeeded in producing something with tn
combined characteristics Of an OXlor
students accent and a New Jersey farmer
They treated everything rs 4 Sort OF joke
II WAS great fun. one Of them SAID
The didn't know anything about anythln
on the bill Of fare. They looked arOun
n the host OF American Iunchers with
, dazed sort of stare and evidently desire
3 10 he taken for foreigners. One of thcr
asked an old lady ii the things were real
, nice YOU know. The old lady replied, g
, uueSS so" The two AugliGiSed American
r looked ut each other tixedlv and the
+ lowered their eyclids as though the ol
lady had given utterance to some Speec
which the rules OF decOrum compelle
them to ignore. Before leaving one otther
, left quarter on the table. The waltre,
followed her Immediately. "iOu hav
left your change, madam The aston
ished would-be donor OF tip took tn
quarter and said to her companion: .
quite forgot we were in 'Amurkir, don
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